Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,642, Rowel Foot, Mass.

SERIAL
Mass.
or Foot. Rowel Foot.
NUMBER
R. 3642
Sarah
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(1938)
Massachusetts.
Rachel Root, 4 Ch d Bradford private.
Mass t Line - 1780 3 years war in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of July 1818 and sent to Stephen Minot, Esq r Haverhill Mass t .
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. semi-annual allowance
4 mo. 22/30. $ 37. 86.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
✓ Continued Bradford, Essex Co.

Notification sent June 1 st 1821, to J. B. Thomas Esq. Plymouth, Mass.

Howel Foot.
85
April 13. 1815-
Conner

I, Rowell Foot, aged 58 years, declare and say that I am a resident citizen of the United States; that I now reside in and belong to the Town of Bradford in the County of Essex in the Middle Circuit in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I further say that about May 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier to serve in the Army of the Revolutionary war, till the 8 months service (as it was called) was out. I then entered the service in Capt. Thomas Cogswell's company, in Col. Gerrish's Reg t of Massachusetts troops, & served therein at & near Cambridge until the expedition to Canada was raised, & then I went from Capt. Cogswell's company, into Capt. Goodridge's company in Col. Arnold's Reg t of Massachusetts troops, & went therein on that expedition to attack Quebec, where I was taken a prisoner by the British, & kept prisoner by them about nine months, & was then exchanged at Elizabeth Town, & then without having the service I again enlisted for 3 years more, & joined Capt. Thomas Eddy's Company in Col. Gannaleel Bradford's Reg t of the Massachusetts line: I served the whole 3 years accordingly in that company, & was then discharged at West Point, in the latter part of the year 1779 by Gen t . Paterson, & so left the service: — Again in the summer of 1780 I enlisted for 3 years more, & then entered the service in Capt. Elathan Haskell's company, in Col. Shephard's Reg t of the Massachusetts line, & served under Capt. Haskell till after the Peace in 1783 & was discharged by Gen t M c Jackson at West Point & so left the service. I cannot at this time recollect the dates more particularly than above stated. I was in the Battles at Bunker's hill, Quebec, Saratoga, Bennington's heights, & Trenton; — I have lost both said discharges, & know not of their existence: that I have no other positive evidence of the above service in my power; that I am, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from my country for support; and I never had any pension allowed me by the laws of the United States.
Rowell Foot
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex ss. April 13. 1818 Then the above named Rowell Foot made solemn oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true, before me,
Stephen Minot, { Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit.

Whereupon it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Rowell Foot, did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in his declaration aforesaid, against the common enemy, I now certify & transmit the testimony in the case & the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary of the department of war.
Stephen Minot { Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit.
I also certify that from my own knowledge of the said Rowell Foot, he is in indigent circumstances, & is in need of assistance from his country for support.
Stephen Minot, Judge as aforesaid.

Howell Foot
1938
Sept 18
Dear Sir,
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SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this seventeenth day of July - 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Rowel Foot aged sixty years, resident in Rochester in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of three years in the company of Col. Joshua Eddy, 8 Col. General Bradford, Regiment of Massachusetts Line - and that he has received a pension certificate dated 28 July 1818 and numbered 1938 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 13th day of April A.D. 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Real Estate I have none - Personal Estate I have none - My occupation is that of a common labourer but so much crippled as to be unable to labour more than one half the time - I have no family, & own about twenty dollars. Rowel Foot -
Sworn to, and declared, on the 17th day of July A.D. 1820 - before
Nahum Mitchell b. justice of said court -
I, John B. Thomas clerk of the aforesaid court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing dollars and nothing cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 20th day of July Decr 1820
John B. Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth -

State of Massachusetts } Franklin County - ss.
On this nineteenth day of June eighteen hundred and fifty four, personally appeared before me, Franklin Tipton Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid, Sarah Foot, a resident of Deerfield in said County of Franklin, aged eighty six years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the third of February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; That she is the Widow of Robert Foot who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and served in said war according to her best recollection of his statements, for the period of three years, that her said husband, Robert Foot was receiving a Pension of eight dollars per month, payable at the Massachusetts Agency, at the time of her marriage to him, on account of his said service, the evidence of which service she supposes now on file with his application in the Pension Office, That she thinks the last time he received his Pension was in September A.D. 1824, that her said husband died from home, as herein after stated and she has never seen or heard anything of his Pension Certificate since his death; That she was legally married to said Robert Foot at Deerfield aforesaid on the thirtieth day of July eighteen hundred and twenty one and that according to her best knowledge and belief he died in Farmington Mass s in the month of December A.D. 1824, or in January A.D. 1825, that she was not married to him prior the year eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated, She further declares that she is now a Widow and has not before made any application for a pension on account of the service of her said husband
Sarah her X Foot, M.A.W.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin County ss. On this nineteenth day of June in the year 1854 personally appeared before me Franklin T Ripley Judge of Probate within & for the county of Franklin Sarah Foot a resident in Danfield in said county of Franklin to me personally known and made oath to the truth of the within certificate by her subscribed by making her mark in my presence. I further certify that the said Sarah Foot is unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity & therefore I the said Judge did administer the oath to her at her residence in Danfield aforesaid. Franklin T Ripley Judge of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin County S.S. - I Charles Mattoon, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the county of Franklin aforesaid, do certify that Franklin T Ripley, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is the Judge of the Court of Probate in said County in that his signature above made is genuine, is his official signature and made at the same purports to have been made -
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, & affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this nineteenth day of June in the year One thousand eight hundred & fifty four
Charles Mattoon Regd Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Franklin ss.
I, Charles Williams of Deerfield in the County aforesaid, having been first sworn according to law, do testify and say, that I hold the Office of Town Clerk for said town of Deerfield and by virtue of said Office have in my possession the Books of Record of said town That in the Book kept & used for the record of marriages is the following Record - "Copy of Record"
"July Thirtieth. Eighteen Hundred & Twenty One
Robert Root and Widow Sarah Mendell both of Deerfield, By were married - by me William Stoddard Williams Justice of the Peace Deerfield August 2 d 1821. The foregoing is a true Copy of the original received and recorded by me
Gustin Hitchcock Town Clerk
Town Clerks Office Deerfield Mr 19th June 1854
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy from the record of marriages in the Town of Deerfield except the date of the marriage which is as follows viz "July 30th 1821,"
Attest. Charles Williams Town Clerk of Deerfield
Franklin ss, June 19. 1854
Then subscribed and sworn to before me by the above named Charles Williams
Samuel H. Reed Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin, ss.
I, GEO. GRENNELL, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Franklin, do certify, that Samuel H. Reed Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the Certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Samuel H. Reed Esq., and believe his signature to said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this — nineteenth — day of — June — in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
Geo. Grennell Clerk.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
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P. O. Sarah Foot Service: widow of Rowel
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: REJECTED , 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Sarah Root
and Russell
Francis
Robert and  Root Raymond and Miss Act
18th of Invalid
Washington D.C.
Frank H. Rev. Greenfield
Recd June 20 1835

Dear Sir,
Yours
Truly
Robert E. Lee General Confederate States Army
Fields - Washington City
Rev. Mr. [unclear] [unclear] [unclear] Rev. June 20/65

No 4799 Doral Foot Mid. of Roller.
Ex. to Sam. H. Reed, 24" pence/52,
3642 AOP/53

To the Secretary of the department of War, Sir, please to transmit the Certificate of Allowance of my Pension under the late law to Stephen Minot Esqr. of Haverhill Ms. who will forward the same to me.
Bradford Ms. April 13. 1818
Russell Root

Greenfield Mass ts June 20. 1854
Sir,
I forward herewith the declaration of Sarah Foot for the benefits of the Pension law on, account of the service of her husband, Robert Foot, in the Army of the Revolution, with the widow of her marriage to said Robert Foot - As the obtaining the necessary proof of his death may be attended with considerable expense, he having died from harm and among strangers, and the applicant being entirely destitute of the means to meet any expense, I shall wait the result of this application, before incurring that expense. I suppose from the statement of the applicant that the proof of the service of Robert Foot will be found, and if so, nothing more will be required to establish the claim than the proof of his death.
She is not very sure as to the time he last received payment on his Pension certificate, and she does not know whether he had his certificate with him at the time of his death, or whether it was left in the possession of some person at Northampton when he usually went to get  have his payment of it, made out for the payment. She thinks he resided in the town of Rochester at the time he must have made his application - or in Haverhill, but is not certain.

Although she has heard her said husband speak of his pension, yet her intention is not sufficiently distinct to give any reliable statement as to when he served, or the length of his service, or any names of the Officers under whom he served,
In case her claim is established I suppose she will be entitled to what may have been due him on his pension certificate, up to the date of his death
Respectfully yours Obt.
Samuel H. Reed

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Foot, Samuel GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER H185 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 25, 1790
to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.